Highlight • Natural Monument
Crow Knob Natural Area
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Lisa
November 21, 2025
This natural area centers around the prominent rocky Crow Knob, which is said to have become the place of worship, and a utilitarian lookout point, for a community of freed slaves in pre-Civil War times. They began meeting at the knob after their church was burned.
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